Spiders and scorpions
Nov. 11th, 2020 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marginnotesMany people fear arachnids like spiders and scorpions. Some spider venom is powerful enough for their bites to kill people, but deaths from spider bites are apparently extremely rare, less likely even than dying in a terrorist attack, much less likely than being struck by lightning. If you hang around in the right deserts, dying from a scorpion sting is much more likely than dying of a spider bite.
Spiders with their soft bodies have only been found in the fossil record over the last couple of hundred million years. Scorpions have been found in fossils over four hundred million years old.
Uttu, Arachne, and Anansi are linked to spiders, Serket to scorpions. Anansi is a sort of trickster god of storytelling.
Spiders live in my house. Both animals show up in my imagination.
Spiders with their soft bodies have only been found in the fossil record over the last couple of hundred million years. Scorpions have been found in fossils over four hundred million years old.
Uttu, Arachne, and Anansi are linked to spiders, Serket to scorpions. Anansi is a sort of trickster god of storytelling.
Spiders live in my house. Both animals show up in my imagination.
